1. "We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft."
2. "It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened."
3. "But I reckon I got to light out for the territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she’s going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can’t stand it. I been there before."
Critic Quotes:
1. From Boston Evening Traveller, "Mr. Clemens has contributed some humorous literature that is excellent and will hold its place, but his 'Huckleberry Finn' appears to be singularly flat, stale and unprofitable."
2. From The San Francisco Chronicle, "Mark Twain may be called the Edison of our literature. There is no limit to his inventive genius, and the best proof of its range and originality is found in this book, in which the reader's interest is so strongly enlisted in the fortunes of two boys and a runaway negro that he follows their adventures with keen curiosity, although his common sense tells him that the incidents are as absurd and fantastic in many was as the 'Arabian Nights.' Here is where the genius and the human nature of the author come in. Nothing else can explain such a tour de force as this, in which the most unlikely materials are transmuted into a work of literary art."
3. From San Francisco Daily Examiner, "It is apparently, as the art critics say, a pot-boiler in its baldest form. As a picture of life in the Southwest, however, there is little to be said in the book's favor, though there are several passages which are drawn with much ability, with occasionally a touch of a sort of grotesque pathos which greatly interests the reader."
4. From New York Times, " The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a good if not great adaption of the Mark Twain classic. Part of the problem with this book is simply that Hollywood in 1939 was not really ready to deal with the racial themes that permeate the book, although this Finn does make a game try."
By: Mark Twain
Memorable Quotes:
1. "We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft."
2. "It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened."
3. "But I reckon I got to light out for the territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she’s going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can’t stand it. I been there before."
Critic Quotes:
1. From Boston Evening Traveller, "Mr. Clemens has contributed some humorous literature that is excellent and will hold its place, but his 'Huckleberry Finn' appears to be singularly flat, stale and unprofitable."
2. From The San Francisco Chronicle, "Mark Twain may be called the Edison of our literature. There is no limit to his inventive genius, and the best proof of its range and originality is found in this book, in which the reader's interest is so strongly enlisted in the fortunes of two boys and a runaway negro that he follows their adventures with keen curiosity, although his common sense tells him that the incidents are as absurd and fantastic in many was as the 'Arabian Nights.' Here is where the genius and the human nature of the author come in. Nothing else can explain such a tour de force as this, in which the most unlikely materials are transmuted into a work of literary art."
3. From San Francisco Daily Examiner, "It is apparently, as the art critics say, a pot-boiler in its baldest form. As a picture of life in the Southwest, however, there is little to be said in the book's favor, though there are several passages which are drawn with much ability, with occasionally a touch of a sort of grotesque pathos which greatly interests the reader."
4. From New York Times, " The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a good if not great adaption of the Mark Twain classic. Part of the problem with this book is simply that Hollywood in 1939 was not really ready to deal with the racial themes that permeate the book, although this Finn does make a game try."